Context-aware cooperation between human and robotic teams in catastrophic incidents

The study of cooperative interaction between multi-party multi-agent teams that include humans and robots is a recent scientific challenge. Preliminary empiric results about this interaction, in the scope of search and rescue applications, demonstrate the need for deeper studies on how humans should interact with teams of autonomous mobile robots and on how to establish a mutual beneficial interaction. This work presents the work in progress in the scope of CHOPIN¹ project, which aims to address some of these issues and will focus on devising new methods for collaborative context awareness and context sharing between teams of humans and teams of robots.